Doc: "The 'googlewashing' Orlowski talks about was done by the Times, not by Google, and not by bloggers." Exactly.

A note to Prof Lessig. This morning I came up with a new app that that integrates weblogs like Scripting News with search engines like Google in a new way. It's very exciting. I'm jumping up and down and giggling I like it so much. Now if I wanted to really be a jerk I'd hire one of your grad students to patent it, and make sure everyone who implemented it would have to pay me a royalty. But I'm a fool. I think people's brains will explode when they get to use this. It'll be a useful research tool for busting patents. It's perfectly appropriate to give it to the world for free. Now can we come up with something Creative Commons-like, basically some middle ground for people who want credit for their work, but don't care to erect a tollbooth?